Licences to be Year. Cattle Sheds in Burghs (Scotland). and whenever the Licence of any such Person is revoked as aforesaid, the Magistrates or the Commissioners may refuse to grant any Licence whatsoever to the Person whose Licence has been so revoked. 6. Every Licence granted under this Act shall continue in force renewed every for the Period of One Year from the granting thereof, except it shall be suspended or revoked under this Act; and no Fee or Reward shall be taken for any such Licence; and such Licence shall be required to be renewed once in every Year; and if any Person shall use any Cattle Shed, Cowhouse, or Byre in any Burgh or populous Place without a Licence, he shall be liable for each Offence to a Penalty not exceeding Five Pounds, of which Offence the Fact that Bulls, Cows, Heifers, Oxen, or Calves have been taken into such Place shall be deemed sufficient prima facie Evidence. Licences after 7. From and after the Fifteenth Day of May One thousand eight 15th May 1867. hundred and sixty-seven, before any Licence for the Use of any Cattle Shed, Cowhouse, or Byre can be granted, Fourteen Days Notice of the Intention to apply for such Licence shall be given in Writing to the Magistrates or Commissioners. Extent of Act. 8. This Act shall apply only to Scotland. 9. This Act (Clause Seven excepted) shall come into force on the ment of Act. Fifteenth Day of May One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. CAP. XVIII. East India Military, &c. Funds Transfer. CA P. XVIII. An Act to make Provision for the Transfer of the Assets, Liabilities, and Management of the Bengal, Madras, and Bombay Military Funds, the Bengal Military Orphan Society, and other Funds, to the Secretary of State for India in Council. W [30th April 1866.] THEREAS certain Institutions known as the Bengal Military Fund, the Bengal Military Orphan Society, the Madras Military Fund, and the Bombay Military Fund, were established in India at different Times, under the Authority of the Honourable East India Company, for the Grant of certain Benefits to the Commissioned Officers of the said Company's Army who were Subscribers to those Institutions, and for the Grant of Pensions and other Allowances to the Widows and Orphans of such Officers, and those Institutions were supported by Donations and Subscriptions from the Officers of the said Company's Army and by certain Aids from the said Company : And whereas, by the Act of the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Victoria, Chapter One hundred and six, for the better Government of India, it was amongst other things provided that the Military and Naval Forces of the East India Company should be deemed to be the Indian Military and Naval Forces of Her Majesty, and should be entitled to the like Pay, Pensions, Allowances, and Privileges, and the like Advantages as regards Promotion and otherwise, as if they had continued in the Service of the said Company: And whereas, in consequence of the Changes subsequently made in the Constitution of the Indian Army, Notice was given to the Government of India by the Secretary of State for India in Council that the said Secretary of State for India in Council was ready to assume the Liabilities of the said Institutions, so far as might be requisite to maintain existing Pensions, and to secure to the Subscribers and their Families the Benefits to which they were entitled therefrom, and also that, in the event of such Assumption, present Incumbents on and Subscribers to the several Funds The Secretary of State for East India Military, &c. Funds Transfer. Funds should be guaranteed the Pensions and Allowances for themselves and their Families to which they were entitled from those Funds, according to the Regulations then in force, and at the Rates of Subscription then existing : And whereas, under Instructions from the Secretary of State for India in Council, the Government of India caused the Question whether, under the Guarantee so given, the Assets and Liabilities of the said Institutions should be made over by the Directors and Managers thereof to the Secretary of State for India in Council, to be submitted for the Votes of the Subscribers to those Institutions, and the Proposition so to make over the Assets and Liabilities of the said Institutions was, in regard to each of the said Institutions, carried in the Affirmative by a large Majority of Votes: And whereas, in order to avoid any Doubt that may hereafter arise in regard to the Legality of such Transfer, it is necessary to make Provision by Law for enabling the Directors and Managers of the said Institutions to transfer the Assets, Liabilities, and Management thereof to the Secretary of State for India in Council, and for enabling the said Secretary of State for India in Council to accept the same: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 1. It shall be lawful for the Directors and Managers of the said India in Coun- Institutions to make over the Assets, Liabilities, and Management cil may take thereof to the Secretary of State for India in Council, and for the Assets, &c. of Secretary of State for India in Council to take and assume the certain Pension Assets, Liabilities, and Management thereof. Funds in India. and assume the Rights of Incumbents and Subscribers maintained. 2. As soon as the said Assets, Liabilities, and Management shall be made over as aforesaid, and the Acceptance thereof by the Secretary of State for India in Council notified by the Government of India, every Person who shall be an Incumbent on or Subscriber to any of the said Institutions at the Date of such Notification shall be entitled from Time to Time to receive from the Revenues of India such Allowance to himself, and his Family shall be entitled to receive such Pension or Allowance after his Decease, as he or they may be entitled to by the Regulations of the said Institutions: Provided that nothing in this Act contained shall be held to preclude the Secretary of State for India in Council from assigning to East India Military, &c. Funds Transfer. to the Incumbents on and Subscribers to any of the said Institutions, or to their Families after their Decease, any Benefits in addition to those secured to them by this Act, if, on considering the Assets and Liabilities of the several Institutions, he shall deem it reasonable so to do. and assume the Assets, &c. of thereto. 3. And whereas it may be expedient that the Secretary of State Power to take for India in Council should have Authority in like Manner to accept the Transfer of the Assets, Liabilities, and Management of certain other Pension Funds other Institutions known as the Bengal Medical Retiring Fund, by Consent of the Madras Medical Fund, and the Bombay Medical Retiring Fund, the Subscribers with the Consent of the Subscribers to the said Institutions respectively: It shall be lawful for the Managers or Trustees to make over the Assets, Liabilities, and Management of all or any of the said Funds, and for the Secretary of State for India in Council to take and assume the same, if at any Time hereafter it shall appear by a Vote, specially taken for the Purpose, that a Majority of not less than Three Fourths of the Subscribers to those Institutions who may vote upon the Question are desirous of transferring them to the said Secretary of State for India in Council. CAP. XIX. Parliamentary Oaths Amendment. Oath to be CA P. XIX. An Act to amend the Law relating to Parliamentary W HEREAS it is expedient that One uniform Oath should be taken by Members of both Houses of Parliament on taking their Seats in every Parliament : Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: 1. The Oath to be made and subscribed by Members of both taken by Mem- Houses of Parliament on taking their Seats in every Parliament shall be in the Form following: bers of Parlia ment. The Name of for the Time being to be I A.B. do swear that I will be faithful and bear true Allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Victoria; and I do faithfully promise to maintain and support the Succession to the Crown, as the ⚫ same stands limited and settled by virtue of the Act passed in the Reign of King William the Third, intituled "An Act for the "further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights "and Liberties of the Subject," and of the subsequent Acts of Union with Scotland and Ireland. So help me GOD.' 2. Where in the Oath hereby appointed the Name of Her present the Sovereign Majesty is expressed, the Name of the Sovereign of this Kingdom for the Time being by virtue of the Act "for the further Limitation "of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the "Subject," shall be substituted from Time to Time with proper Words of Reference thereto. used in the Oath. Time and taking the Oath. 3. The Oath hereby appointed shall in every Parliament be solemnly and publicly made and subscribed by every Member of the House of Peers at the Table in the Middle of the said House before he takes his Place in the said House, and whilst a full House of Peers is there with their Speaker in his Place, and by every Member of the House of Commons at the Table in the Middle of the said House, and whilst a full House of Commons is there duly sitting, with their Speaker in his Chair, at such Hours and according |